A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

The tenth Verse containeth three things for explication, 1. The Lords claim of the Seventh day, as having reserved that to himself, it's his, it's to him, and by him, and for him separated from other days. 2. A consequent flowing from this; Therefore that day is not to be employed to any of our own works, no not the least, No manner of work, no word, no thought nor deed of any such sort under whatsoever pretext beside the excepted cases. 3. It's extension as to all relations, so to all ranks, Parent and Child, Master and Servant, &c. yea, It's thou for thy self, and for all thou hast the oversight and charge of, Sons, Servants, Strangers, yea, and Beasts, not that they are capable of sanctifying a day more then the Beasts in Nineveh were of religious fasting, Jonah 3. yet this showeth what ought to be the Masters care, it being for his use that Beasts are put to work; God enjoineth all •ayes of abstaining from every thing that is a mans own ⟨p. 297⟩work on the Sabbath, and will have him solemn in it: In a word, All within thy gates, looketh not only to Masters and all in their families or within their doors, but to Magistrates and Governors, and all within their Jurisdiction (Gates being the place of Judgment, and used in Scripture to show the extent as well as seat of power) that they should see to their sanctifying of this day; and the failing of any under them is their sin when they endeavour not to prevent and amend it: And thus Nehemiah understood this command, Neh. 13. when he put forth his power, not only in contending with the native Nobles, but even against Strangers, for restraining them from violating this day.

The tenth Verse containeth three things for explication, 1. The Lords claim of the Seventh day, as having reserved that to himself, it's his, it's to him, and by him, and for him separated from other dayes. 2. A consequent flowing from this; Therefore that day is not to be imployed to any of our own works, no not the least, No manner of work, no word, no thought nor deed of any such sort under whatsoever pretext beside the excepted cases. 3. It's extension as to all relations, so to all ranks, Parent and Child, Master and Servant, &c. yea, It's thou for thy self, and for all thou hast the oversight and charge of, Sons, Servants, Strangers, yea, and Beasts, not that they are capable of sanctifying a day more then the Beasts in Nineveh were of religious fasting,